Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native woman (when the field gun of a punitive force sent to depose him bogged down in the mud, Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting to the celebrated marriage of his nephew Seretse Khama to Ruth Williams, a blonde Englishwoman, when Britain feared that any provocation would prompt Daniel Malan's Union of South Africa to seize Bechuanaland. Sprung from London exile, Tshekedi returned (1956) to Bechuanaland, helped set up a voting council to replace the autocratic chief he had so long exemplified...
...Hungarian rebellion and the ensuing slaughter. He detains a busload of foreigners who are trying to leave the country, because he suspects that some of them may really be Hungarians. Almost at once, the major starts to roll his ochi chernye at one of the passengers, an Englishwoman (Deborah Kerr), and offers to become her devoted Slav; but soon he discovers to his displeasure that his pretty little anglichanka is in love with another passenger (Jason Robards Jr.). The major, soulful Russian that he is, swirls his sorrows into a big black cape and goes thundering about the countryside...
...Sixth Happiness. An uneven but appealing picture in which Ingrid Bergman, as a gentle Englishwoman bent on converting China's millions, covers more ground than Marco Polo...
...Sixth Happiness. An uneven but generally appealing picture in which Ingrid Bergman, as a gentle Englishwoman bent on converting China's millions, covers more ground than Marco Polo and seems in no hurry (2 hr. 37 min.) to get the job done...
...Sixth Happiness. An uneven but generally appealing picture, in which Ingrid Bergman, as a gentle Englishwoman bent on converting China's millions, covers more ground than Marco Polo and seems in no hurry (2 hr. 37 min.) to get the job done...